Venafi Expands CISO Advisory Board

Top security leaders join Venafi Advisory Board

December 08, 2016 08:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time

SALT LAKE CITY--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Venafi®,
the leading provider in cryptographic key and digital certificate
security, today announced the addition of new members to its Chief
Information Security Officer (CISO) Advisory Board. The board works
closely with Venafi executives to advance the company’s lead in securing
and protecting keys and certificates. The board also contributes
insights and provides recommendations on market awareness, market
penetration and product strategy. In addition, the board helps Venafi
work toward transforming the way organizations around the world evaluate
and protect digital trust. The board meets several times a year under
the leadership of Venafi CIO and CISO, Tammy Moskites.

“The problems we solve are the least understood aspects of security and
they are critical to the security and stability of our digital economy”

"Securing critical infrastructure and protecting privileged access has
never been more challenging than it is today,” said Moskites. “We are
thrilled to have assembled a team of exemplary security leaders. Their
individual and collective expertise is invaluable in our efforts to
educate the market on the severity of unprotected encryption and the
need to secure authorization and authentication of assets. This team
will accelerate market adoption of our solutions.”

The new members of the advisory board include widely respected,
visionary CISOs from leading global organizations. These CISOs have
already adopted orchestration solutions designed to aggressively protect
keys and certificates:

Tim Callahan, SVP & Global CISO, Aflac

David Estlick, CISO, Starbucks

John Graham, CISO, Jabil

Shawn Irving, VP & CISO, Michaels Stores, Inc.

Bruce Jones, VP & CISO, Excellus BCBS

The Venafi CISO Advisory Board discusses the security, business and
regulatory issues that surround cryptographic security. The board will
also explore educational strategies to help raise awareness around the
pervasive impact of cyber attacks that subvert encryption, and help to
define and codify the best practices necessary to detect and prevent
these attacks.

“The problems we solve are the least understood aspects of security and
they are critical to the security and stability of our digital economy,”
said Jeff Hudson, CEO of Venafi. “Securing applications, devices, cloud
workloads and the Internet of Things is critical. Unfortunately, most
organizations use outdated approaches to protect encrypted
communications that leave them extremely vulnerable to a broad range of
cyber attacks. Simply put, if an organization doesn’t know where keys
and certificates are operating in their network, they are not secure.
Unfortunately, most organizations do not have this visibility. Each of
our CISO Advisory Board members has a deep understanding of these issues
and are perfectly positioned to help us transform the market’s
perception of these challenges.”

About Venafi

Venafi
is the cybersecurity market leader in protecting cryptographic keys and
digital certificates, which every business and government depends on to
deliver safe encryption, authentication and authorization. Organizations
use Venafi key and certificate security to protect communications,
commerce, critical systems and data, and mobile and user access.

Venafi provides the Immune System for the Internet®, constantly
assessing which keys and certificates are trusted, protecting those that
should be trusted, and fixing or blocking those that are not. By
protecting the foundation of all cybersecurity—keys and
certificates—Venafi prevents them from being misused by cybercriminals.
The Venafi Trust Protection Platform delivers an ever-evolving,
intelligent response that protects your network, business, and brand.

Venafi customers are among the world's most demanding,
security-conscious Global 2000 organizations, including four of the top
five U.S. banks, four of the top five U.K banks, four of the top five
South African banks, four of the top five U.S. retailers, four of the
top five U.S. airlines, and eight of the top ten U.S. health insurers.
Venafi is backed by top-tier venture capital funds, including Foundation
Capital, Intel Capital, Origin Partners, Pelion Venture Partners,
QuestMark Partners, and Silver Lake Partners. For more information,
visit www.venafi.com.

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